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Audi RS6 Sedan Spied

Audi RS6 Spy Photo / Copyright by AUTOMEDIA

When the 580 bhp Audi RS6 Avant was revealed, the premium manufacturer was announcing its intentions to come out at the top of the German horsepower wars.

Now the sedan variant of the RS6 has now been caught once again testing in Germany by our spies with the most revealing shots yet. The front fascia in unchanged from the avant model but we can see the rear styling mimics that of the A4. Power will come from the Avant's V10 which will give impressive performance figures of 0-100km/h in 4.6 secons.

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ceven u mole. those tailights are from the A5, also present on the new A4. jesus, stop arguing, it is a great car. get over it everyone. we all now it wont do 0 - 100 as they say `cause a lot of other factors are involved: like the wind, the surface they tested it on and so on and so forth. and homer, go drive ur mercedes if this is old..u octogenarian dope. and stop it with the "which pic is photoshoped or not"....u artists.

I guess you have no sense of style or taste Homer. This is absolutely not an old man car, and boring? Its sleek and cool. One of the reasons I like Audi's so much is because none of them look old manish. Some Mercedes, BMWs, Bentleys etc can look oldmanish to a degree. Your an old man though Homer so why does it matter to you?

I agree with Xanavi, especially now that new Audi's are going to get the new side styling ron the A4/5 and the snout from the A4/5 9already applied to the A3 for the refresh). Audi's "hoffmeister Kink" will be this new wave-shape along the sides, which I personnaly, like very much. I do agree that the current A6 and A8 along with the (early) previous generation A$ were soap-on-a-chassis, but the new designs keeps getting better and better.

I agree about the AWD and getting power to the road. As far a turbos being more fun, the issue is lies with the lag response unlike a NA engine where the power is at all levels of the RPM band instantly with the mash of the pettle.

Yea but Turbo lag is only dependant on how the boost curve is tuned and the Turbos in question. In the case of the Audi, the engine will have a nice enough torque curve to hold over until boost hits, it is a V10 after all. Furthermore, im fairly sure that the Turbos on this car probably start spooling at a fairly low RPM range. Even lower if they offer an Engine/Boost tune selector button, think, 3 settings, city, sport, "FUN"...im not sure they will but it they do have the technology im sure, aftermarket firms have had boost controllers for that for years.

The C63 is a lot lighter than the RS6 will be. Some magazines have tested the C63 and have got times down to 4.1 in 0-60. The Rs6 if not mistaken is to compete with the E63, which sits at 510hp naturally aspirated. I'm sure the 6.3 (6.2) AMG engine can produce more like in the CL63 @ 517hp. I will take a naturally aspirated engine over an "equal" HP engine, which is turbo or supercharged. A free breathing engine impresses me more than one with a turbo that has 80-100 more HP. The German HP wars? Merc just has to drop in the 65 engine in the E/CLS to dominate this segment or even better, show us what the new 6.3 AMG engine can really do!

The power means nothing when your sitting in an automatic with just two rear wheels spinning. There's no enjoyment to requiring drivers aids to move anywhere.
Get in a 580hp AWD and you'll notice that you can get much more power onto the road.
ps - Turbos are more fun than NA engines.

If you think at all that premium turbocharged engines still suffer from turbolag you should drive a BMW 335i or VW 2.0T model. I can't think of any better examples as to what direct injection, continuously variable valve timing and forced induction can do to a powerband. Immediate torque delivery that seems un-ending is captivating and breathtaking. With CAFE cracking down it is also the way of the future.

Wisp is right about buying an RS4...but i still like the RS6 alot especially with this V10, someone said Audis are all ugly...i heavily disagree. I prefer Benz a bit from this class of car but nonetheless Audis are very nice, clean looking cars. I also like the Snout/grill alot, it gives Audis character...you know what it is when its behind you. If i had the cash for numerous cars in my garage, i'ld definitely fit an RS4, maybe an RS6

Oh well, the pics of the rear are NO SPYSHOTS .. they are photoshopped very badly i.e. the white part in the taillights is much smaller in reality *g*
WCF should write, that those pics are edited. I'd like to see the real SPYSHOTS to make up my mind and I can waive those bad "Artist Impressions"

Thanx for the info sub39h. On a different issue now. Car makers try to differentiate their cars (most prominently the front grill) so as to at least entice a family into buying more than one of their cars and also to give the buyers the satisfaction of "mine is bigger than yours". The big blip with Audi is that there succesful Gothic grill has got to their heads such that it's all they dream of. I mean who would buy an A6 when you can get even better technology now and the same interior set up as well as almost identical dimensions in the new A4. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Of all their cars i think the R8 and S5 are the best lookers and should be the only two to deserve that aggresive look. The rest should get a hyundai look.

I don't get this, how can a Merc C63 AMG detuned power unit sprint from o to 100 in 4.5 secs as claimed by themselves whilst a biturbo V10 RS6 do the same distance in only 4.6 secs. Someone must be lying here and i bet it's Merc coz there's no way i see that C 63 natural aspirated car beating a V10 bit turbo. Can someone please confirm if at all Mercs figures are proven, coz then i'll take my hat off to them coz thats super fast for a detuned engine.

well you've got to factor in that the RS6 weighs in at over 2 tonnes and the C63 will undoubtedly be a lot lighter. I mean look at it this way, the RS4 "only" has 414bhp and that'll do 0-60 in 4.9 seconds (0.3 more seconds with 166bhp less?).

This doesn't exactly answer your question, but apparently a lot of manufacturers don't give the true acceleration of the car. e.g. a BMW 335i's manufacture claimed acceleration to 100kph is over 5 seconds but in real world tests I've heard it can do something under five seconds to 100kph. Maybe the RS6 will be the same and when independant tests are done it will be faster? I would have thought this car would be able to do a sub 4.5 seconds to 100kph. We will have to wait and see I guess.